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<div dir="ltr">This is basically what I said, that there is no such Aramaic word, and the form middays is an impossible.
<div dir="ltr">The Academy did not talk about the other factor: knowledge of Aramaic was nil in medieval Europe. Anything composed in Aramaic from that period is full of errors, sometimes quite serious ones. This is not a problem confined to the afterSeder
compositions, but covers so many things. </div>
<div dir="ltr">I have said often that Koh Ribbon sung on Friday night contains heretical material in the Aramaic. I hate to say it, but this is one case where it is better that the people who sing it don’t know Aramaic or what the song means. Better ignorance
than heresy. </div>
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<div class="null" dir="auto">On April 17, 2019 at 10:16:41 AM CDT, Ira L. Jacobson via Mesorah <mesorah@lists.aishdas.org> wrote:<br class="null">
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Hint: the word </a></span><span style="font_size:18pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="null"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__hebrew-2Dacademy.org.il_2012_04_03_-25D7-25A9-25D7-259C-25D7-2595-25D7-25A9-25D7-2594-2D-25D7-25A2-25D7-25A9-25D7-25A8-2D-25D7-259E-25D7-2599-25D7-2593-25D7-2599-25D7-2590_&d=DwMFaQ&c=VTwaeXjOsAHot2hQQ0nozrBJwyviuCtydNuGwYGfYiI&r=e6XbAQdGwcl_5FMtQ-t1eA&m=VpNS3cA8nn9qvblpx4pSJRMmZ7PkjscJv9TmHeObFMc&s=VRJMkgUkxiy0zBJfZUjDFlShFFhidiY6tf7HzH7ZljA&e=" target="_BLANK" class="null"><b class="null">מידיא</b>
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<span style="font_size:18pt; font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="null">From the Hebrew Language Academy, the traditional greeting of Temanim from Alhugariya (southwest of Shar`ab) in southern Teman for the hagim:</span></p>
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<span lang="HE" style="font_size:18pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="null">תוסיפו שנים רבות ומועדים טובים ששים ושמחים בחגיכם ובמועדיכם ובימיכם ובשניכם הטובים.</span></p>
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<span style="font_size:18pt; font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="null">To which the response was:</span></p>
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<span lang="HE" style="font_size:18pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="null">בחייך ובימיך הטובים.</span></p>
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<span lang="HE" style="font_size:18pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="null">To all, מועדים לשמחה.</span></p>
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